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a fiesta of charms

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were pre wall days and such things were more clandestine than

they were now... Stopping two men, they all seems to walk as if

they had made plans long before... up into an apartment ten

minutes from the High Street, where I sat to eat two sausages, I

can never eat one sausage as I start to feel like there is more to

the story... perhaps one sausage is too abrupt...

...an hour or so later she was walking past a playground,

kids on swings, playing with balls, the detritus of cum on the tip

of her forehead against the hair on the right side...

...Patrice would always mention, and in particular that

same night that she would spend most weekends at the cabin I

already knew of. Of course, but the reason caused a tenure of

confusion, that confiscated a sense of liberation, or maybe in

hindsight it is liberation personified... death, life, sex, a history of

murder...

Diary One [4.25pm]

...I want to dispel a myth with this death of April, because it gnaws on

me, but it’s simply that danger is not just a male oriented thing, and it

simply isn’t... if you check the statistics many women fall prey to crimes

executed by other women... and so this is the case...

Fatal Extravagance

...the feeling mounted that she would arrive back that

Tuesday, usually in the same mood... melancholic or perturbed

by a throb, that I once noticed by a little blood on the neck, a

bright clarity to it that seemed to remind of a butcher or cattle...

...she spent that Tuesday evening with Clarise arguing

about Wittengstein, although I failed to decipher much else, her

history of working for the secret services was still, then, a secret,

along with her confliction of whether she was German or

Russian, although like her accent, this seemed to change as

fluidly as her knickers... she was particularly fond of cleanliness,

gloves, mostly black, although a few weeks prior a pair of yellow

gloves Patrice called OJ’s gloves... her retort that OJ was a rather

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